University of Tennessee at Chattanooga fans know Caia Elisaldez as an indispensable guard who has gone beyond being a standout scorer and playmaker to taking on a bigger leadership role within the program during her time with the Mocs.
Now the 5-foot-5 junior from Whittier, California, will have the opportunity to use those leadership skills on a national level for her sport.
UTC announced this week that Elisaldez has been named a liaison to the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Player Rules Committee from the Women’s Basketball Student-Athlete Engagement Group. She’s one of just two players in the country appointed to the role.
Elisaldez had recently been named as the Southern Conference’s representative for the group, which created the opportunity to be on the NCAA committee.
“Once I got into that, I was able to go out on a video conference with all the other girls from the different conferences and talked to a few of the NCAA reps, and then they were surveying who would be interested in being on the Playing Rules Committee,” Elisaldez said in a UTC news release. “I was interested, so I filled out the nomination, but I still had to wait and see if the NCAA accepted it.”